Albie Sachs Quotes
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
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But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.
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I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.
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If you want a future, darling, Why don't you get a past?
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Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal.
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You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.
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Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.
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I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.
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If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?
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Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.
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Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually collapse in cities that give priority to the car.
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Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
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I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but also the biggest consumer in the world. Which means that a lot of things get used, a lot of things get wasted, and a lot of things get churned out in ways that are wasteful.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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We all just do the best we can. When we make mistakes, we admit them, learn from them, ask forgiveness and move on.
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Primitive does not mean stupid.
